1. Gerald Ford
2. Dudley Morton
3. Dwight Eisenhower

In the legacy of human warfare, few men have the status of one Dwight Eisenhower. He masterminded Operation Overlord to the smallest detail, and the Allied invasion of occupied Europe slowly but sure rolled back the Nazis.

1. George Marshall
2. Charles Momsen
3. Calvin T. Durgin

He was a top aide in WWI and followed that act by becoming General of the U.S. Army in round two. Marshall also served a top advisor to President Roosevelt during the conflict.

1. Maksim Mager
2. Mikhail Batorsky
3. Georgy Zhukov

On the Eastern Front, no other man had the impact of Georgy Zhukov, the Marshal of the USSR. His strategic brilliance made him a four-time Hero of the Soviet Union.

1. Bruno Loerzer
2. Hermann Göring
3. Ulrich Grauert

Few men of the Third Reich had the power and sway of Hermann Göring. He was the top commander of the Luftwaffe, Germany's powerful air force.

1. Wilder D. Baker
2. Omar Bradley
3. DeWitt Clinton Ramsey

Omar Bradley was a General of the Army in WWII. He started out as Patton's underling -- but by the end of the conflict the tables were turned, and Bradley was Patton's superior officer.

1. Xue Yue
2. Yan Xishan
3. Chiang Kai-shek

China suffered mightly under the brutality of the Japanese in WWII. But Chiang Kai-shek -- the country's top commander -- made sure that Japan paid the price in blood.

1. Douglas MacArthur
2. Richard O’Kane
3. Slade Cutter

With his corncob pipe and aviator shades, Douglas MacArthur was a beacon of hope in the Pacific Theater. Back and forth he went with Japanese generals, until finally he triumphed.

1. Aleksandr Vasilevsky
2. Ivan Tkachev
3. Semyon Uritsky

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin trusted few men during the war. But Aleksandr Vasilevsky won his confidence. Vasilevsky was promoted to a top commanding position in 1943, just in time to revel in turning back the German juggernaut.

1. Virgil R. Miller
2. James L. Stone
3. Mark W. Clark

In the European Theater, he gained incredible fame. That's because General Mark W. Clark had the pleasure of leading Allied troops through the streets of a liberated Rome.

1. Alan Brooke
2. Stanley Kirby
3. James Kingstone

Alan Brooke was a general who eventually became Chief of the Imperial General Staff. In other words, he was the leader of the whole British Army.

1. George S. Patton
2. Wesley L. Fox
3. Chesty Puller

Patton was a U.S. general renowned for his extreme boldness in the European Theater. But the dude had issues. Unable to control his temper, he lost favor with top American officials and was demoted once during the war.

1. John Harington
2. Bernard Montgomery
3. Jack Harman

He fought in WWI and became a shining star in WWII. No other British general exuded the celebrity persona and power of Bernard Montgomery.

1. Edmund Hakewill
2. Sidney Kirkman
3. Ernest King

The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous battle of the entire war. And the guy in charge of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet? Ernest King, who retired almost immediately after the war ended.

1. Charles de Gaulle
2. Alphonse Juin
3. Maurice Gamelin

He was France's George Washington and Chesty Puller rolled into one. Charles de Gaulle was a top French general who later became a renowed president.

1. William Halsey, Jr.
2. Charlie Beckwith
3. David Hackworth

William Halsey, Jr. was a Fleet Admiral in the Pacifc Theater. He had the unenviable task of subduing the fanatical Japanese Navy … and he did just that.

1. Andrew Cunningham
2. John Halstead
3. Percy Hansen

The British Navy was a major key to winning the European Theater, and Andrew Cunningham was the Admiral of the Fleet. He fought the Germans all over the seas.

1. Jisaburō Ozawa
2. Iwane Matsui
3. Hideki Tojo

Hideki Tojo was a top Japanese general, and he had a key part in planning the devastation of Pearl Harbor. In 1948, he was executed for war crimes.

1. John Glenn
2. Carl Spaatz
3. William Wilson Quinn

Henry Arnold was instrumental in building the U.S. Air Force at the beginning of the war. Carl Spaatz, though, was vital in planning America's jaw-dropping strategic bombing attacks, one reason he became a top general.

1. John Kenyon
2. Antony Kidston
3. Charles Portal

He was the Marshal of the Royal Air Force -- Charles Portal. He was a hero pilot in WWI and then in WWII he was in command of many Allied bombing operations.

1. Carl Aarvold
2. John Balcombe
3. Vernon Sturdee

Vernon Sturdee was a top Australian commander in WWI, and he was even more important in WWII. He and his men suffered notable setbacks in the Pacific Theater but later happily forced the enemy into famous surrenders.

1. Alphonse Juin
2. Lothar Rendulic
3. Johannes Blaskowitz

Alphonse Juin was a top French general who was captured during the war. After his release, he went right back into battle in North Africa and Italy.

1. Tomoyuki Yamashita
2. Hajime Sugiyama
3. Hisaichi Terauchi

Tomoyuki Yamashita crushed the Allies at Singapore. Then, he was ordered to stop the American assaults in the Pacific and the Philippines, a task he was ultimately unable to fulfill. He was executed in 1946.

1. Alfred Jodl
2. Konstantin Hierl
3. Hugo von Abercron

Alfred Jodl was one of Hitler's right-hand men, guiding many of the Third Reich's strategies. So it stands to reason that after the war he was executed for all manner of grievous war crimes.

1. Shunroku Hata
2. Hajime Sugiyama
3. Isoroku Yamamoto

Isoroku Yamamoto was the Fleet Admiral of Japan's navy into the Pacific War. U.S. code breakers stalked him throughout the war, pinpointed his location, and then used fighters to send his tranport plane into oblivion.

1. Ivan Konev
2. Leon Trotsky
3. Vladimir Lenin

When Hitler backstabbed the USSR and invaded, Ivan Konev was one of the men charged with stopping him. After much bloodshed, he was a key commander who helped the Red Army smash the Wehrmacht into pieces.

1. Brian Kennett
2. Harold Alexander
3. Cleveland Keble

Harold Alexander had a particularly famous role in the war. He was one of the very last British commanders to flee Dunkirk during the celebrated and miraculous evacuation from France at the beginning of the war.

1. Norbert Holm
2. Erich von Manstein
3. Horst Niemack

In the German ranks, Erich von Manstein was a true legend, a master of tactics and strategy. His clever mobile attacks set the Allies on their heels over and over again. He was captured, jailed, and later released, spared the executions that found so many of his comrades.

1. Anatoly Demitkov
2. Mikhail Iosifovich Glinsky
3. Konstantin Rokossovsky

Konstantin Rokossovsky was born in Poland and served with the USSR in the war. He helped plan some of the biggest Red Army victories of the entire conflict.

1. Karl Arning
2. Heinrich Kreipe
3. Erwin Rommel

He was called "The Desert Fox." Erwin Rommel was an honorable icon of Germany in WWII, known for treating people humanely even as he was steamrolling them with tank divisions.

1. Guy Simonds
2. Andrew McNaughton
3. Harry Crerar

Harry Crerar was Canada's top battlefield general in the war. And he was no afterthought -- he was so famed that he made the cover of Time magazine in 1944.